JanisL

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by JanisL 7y ago
I was one of the maintainers of the Persephone project which is an automated phonetic transcription tool. This came about from a research project that required a non-cloud solution. This project is open source and can be found on GitHub: h
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by JanisL 7y ago
I sometimes email open source authors to thank them for their efforts, I don't ask for anything, just an email to show gratification. I'm more inclined to go to this effort for the projects that are highly useful but not popular s
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by JanisL 7y ago
On occasion I've worked with people who honestly value certifications more than actual competence and if I'm considering working with them this is something that I'd like to know about ahead of time. The cost of finding this
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by JanisL 7y ago
This might make it a bit harder for someone but wouldn't really stop people from reverse engineering it.
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by JanisL 7y ago
Incidentally this frustration with Kaldi is exactly why we made the Persephone ASR project in Python: https://github.com/persephone-tools
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by JanisL 7y ago
I think the main issue with trying to learn too many languages is that it is exceedingly taxing on your memory capacity. Being a regular developer in a language comes with a lot of context that you have to keep in mind. This gets hard to do
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RAM usage 50 years after Apollo(lesinskis.com)
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One of the most terrifying ones I've seen is in especially locked down corporate environments is that Excel spreadsheets can be used as a defacto computational environment. One place I remember seeing someone write a Python to excel sp
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by JanisL 7y ago
If you can bridge the gap between concepts and relevant experience you have had applying those it can be a great way to contextualize topics. When running though the materials it can help to think about the experiences you've had and w
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by JanisL 7y ago
I find getting as much tooling as possible that will tell you about types is pretty important with a large code base. For example in the Python code getting type annotations along with mypy up and running tends to be a big win.
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by JanisL 7y ago
Even with the quality slipping from the early days I think it's quite remarkable how high the quality is when you consider the distribution of quality of questions that get posted. The low quality review queue on stack overflow is just
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by JanisL 7y ago
> If you took away the community entirely, would it be any less useful? The whole platform is based around the users creating questions and answers. The site puts much of the effort for curation and moderation on to the community, if yo
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by JanisL 7y ago
Maybe things have changed since 2005 when I first used it but Haskell was certainly harder for me and the people I knew to learn than other languages. For languages of a similar power I can see Haskell being similar difficulty to learn. B
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by JanisL 7y ago
It's not easy to change directions. You may enjoy reading Andy Grove's writing about strategic inflection points, basically a description of what had to happen at Intel for them to transition from the memory market that they were
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by JanisL 7y ago
As someone who also uses mechanical keyboards but just for health reasons this looks interesting, thanks for sharing.
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This book sounds interesting, what is the name of this book?
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by JanisL 7y ago
Unfortunately wouldn't be the first time I've heard something like this :(
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Falsehoods people believe about Australian time zones(lesinskis.com)
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A day in the life of a package maintainer(customprogrammingsolutions.com)
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by JanisL 7y ago
Thankfully there's not many people like this but I have met a few over the years.
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by JanisL 7y ago
Earlier in my career I saw exactly this situation come up with a manager of mine, had the perfect overlap of a few skills that don't frequently come up together but this was completely taken for granted. As a result there was an amazin
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by JanisL 7y ago
Reading the original post it seems to say 1.5K plus "tons of eng time", I'd imagine that it's the opportunity cost of the engineering time that ends up being by far the most expensive part in this and that the 1.5k fig
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by JanisL 7y ago
I'd argue that this is closer to a market rate than it seems because, as you mention, on the open market they can go somewhere else and paying them this much is needed for them to not do that. How are you defining market rate if not by
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by JanisL 7y ago
Wow, I honestly wonder how this is possible?
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by JanisL 8y ago
Did they give you any feedback as to why they blocked this?
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by JanisL 8y ago
Nice! I'll have to give this a try at some point if I run into GC related latency issues and see if it works on my systems.
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by JanisL 8y ago
This is a very interesting approach, what happened with memory footprint when you did this?
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by JanisL 8y ago
The source code is here: https://github.com/aapeliv/github-status-generator.com but it might be 404ing for you today, lol.
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by JanisL 8y ago
Thanks for this post, I remember reading about "Flyweight" and being confused at the time, if it's just memoization that instantly makes sense and is just such a better way of describing things.
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I like that you have self awareness about these things. I think the crucial thing to realize is that "senior" means very different things to different organizations and people. If their idea of senior is more in line with other pl

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